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Data Representation & Bitmap

The document discusses data representation in computing, focusing on the differences between bitmap and vector graphics, binary data, and encoding standards like ASCII and Unicode. It includes questions and answers related to binary representation, image resolution, colour depth, and the advantages of vector graphics. Additionally, it covers sound representation and the impact of sample rates and bit depth on audio quality.

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Data Representation & Bitmap

The document discusses data representation in computing, focusing on the differences between bitmap and vector graphics, binary data, and encoding standards like ASCII and Unicode. It includes questions and answers related to binary representation, image resolution, colour depth, and the advantages of vector graphics. Additionally, it covers sound representation and the impact of sample rates and bit depth on audio quality.

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Data Representation

Understand the difference between bitmap and vector

1. How many kibibytes make up one mebibyte?


Ans: 1024

2. Computers use binary to represent information.


a) Which one of these is the number of bytes in one kibibyte?
Ans: 1024

3. Computers use binary to represent information.


a) Which one of these is the number of bytes in one mebibyte?
Ans: 1024 x 1024

4. How many characters can be represented in an 8-bit binary sequence?


Ans: 256

5. Binary can be used to represent images.


a) Complete the missing two lines of binary digits.
b) A more complex 24 bit images of the graphic can be created with 800 x 600 pixels.
Calculate the size of the image file in mebibytes.
Ans: 1.4 mebibytes

6. Computers use binary to represent data nad program instructions.


State the number of values that can be represented by one binary digit (bit).
Ans: 0 or 1

7. Binary data is used to represent information in a computer.


a) Which one of these is a binary digit?
Ans: 1

8. Computers use binary to represent information.


a) Which one of these is the number of bits in one byte?
Ans: 8

b) An image is represented by this binary pattern. Complete the grid.

9. The image uses 16 picture elements.


a) State the term used for a picture element.
Ans: pixel

b) Which one of the these is a definition of colour depth?


Ans: The number of bits used to represent each picture element.
Ans: The number of colours represented by each picture element.

10. The image is represent by this binary pattern: 0100 1011 0100 0100
a) State the number of pixels in the image.
Ans: 16

b) Complete this sentence.


The resolution of the image is 4 x 4 and the colour depth is 1 bit.

11. Vector graphics are often used for logos.


State what type of graphic a photograph is.
Ans: Bitmap

12. Complete the sentence.


Bitmaps assign a colour to each pixel in the image.

13. State one advantage of using vector graphics rather than bitmap graphics.
Ans: Resolution quality is not reduced when enlarged, resized
Smaller file sizes
Transfer more quickly
Uses less bandwidth

14. Explain why a logo should be stored as a vector graphic.


Ans: Vectors are drawn from mathematical coordinates.
Because coordinates can be recalculated.
To allows images to be resized.
And be used on different products/ applications.
So that clarity can be retained/ doesn’t pixelate.

15. An image is 200pixels x 200 pixels.


It is resized to 400pixels x 300 pixels.
Explain why it would have been better to resize it to 400pixels x 400 pixels.
Ans: Resizing to 400 x 400 would maintain the proportions so the image is not disorted.
It looks more like the original.

16. An image has a width of 1064 pixels and a height of 1600 pixels.
It is resized to a width of 1000 pixels and a height of 1600 pixels.
Explain the effect of resizing the image using these settings.
Ans: The image will appear skewed because it is not in proportion.
The image will be distorted because only the width has been width.

17. Explain one benefit of increasing the number of bits used to represent each pixel in an
image.
Ans: You can create more colorful images because using more bits increase the number
of values/ representations.

18. Graphics can be bitmap or vector.


Complete the sentence.
If a bitmap image enlarge, it may become pixelated, meaning it is less sharp.

Vector graphic use coordinates that can be recalculated when an image is resized.

19. A graphic designer is creating a logo.


a) Complete the sentence.
The designer should create the logo as a vector graphic so it can be resized without
becoming pixelated.
20. Complete the sentence using the correct phrase from this list.
The colour depth of the image is 1-bit.

21. Explain why more storage is required when the sample rate for a sound is increased.
Ans: More bits are used because ore representations of the amplitude. OR
Increasing the same rate means that more samples will be taken and more data will be
generated because the amplitude of the sound at each sampling point is represented by
a fixed number of bits.

22. Explain the benefit of increasing the sample rate when recording the sound.
Ans:

23. Complete the sentence by using words from the list.


a) A sample of the amplitude of a sound is measured thousands of times every second.

b) Explain why increasing the bit-depth-affects the representation of sound.


Ans: More accurate representation (of the amplitude) because more values can be
used to represent the amplitude.

More data available to represent each sample so better recreating of the original
sound

24. Computers use binary patterns to represent text, images and sound.
Draw one straight line from each type of data to what the binary pattern represents for
that type of data.
Text (Type of data)  Characters (represent)
Images (Type of data)  Pixels
Sound (Type of data)  Amplitude

25. Which of the following is a common industry standard for encoding character data?
Ans: Unicode

26. State one benefit of using Unicode to encode characters.


Ans: Can encode more characters.

27. Complete this sentence.


A standard that uses seven bits to encode characters is ASCII.

28. State one reason why Unicode rather than ASCII is used to encode the text.
Ans: Unicode can represent more characters.
Russian/ cycillic characters not represented by ASCII

29. Which one of these is encoded using ASCII?


Ans: (Graphic, Sound, Text, Video)

30. State the number of different characters that can be represented using 7-bit ASCII.
Ans: 128, 2 power 7.

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